This is an exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new featuresand improvements, including app folders, enhanced system status andhigh-resolution display support. This release also includes new andredesigned applications for video, software, editing, sound recordingand internet relay chat.

Under the hood, support for using Wayland instead of X has progressedsignificantly.

For more information about the major changes in GNOME 3.12, you canvisit the release notes:

This six months' effort wouldn't have been possible without the wholeGNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around theworld: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability andaccessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, systemadministrators, companies, artists, testers and last, not least, users.GNOME would not exist without all those people.